Regulation
Tax Planning
Bristol and West, which is owned by the Bank of Ireland, has lost an attempt at a Tax Tribunal to avoid paying about £30m tax on a £91m gain.
23 April 2013
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Regulation
Too much regulation - instead of instilling greater trust in the financial services industry - can have the opposite effect, according to Richard Sexton, reputation and policy director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
23 April 2013
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Critical Illness
Skandia has launched a critical illness (CI) product as many advisers "re-prioritise" protection following changes to retail investment advice made after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
23 April 2013
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Wrap/platforms
Novia has warned its users that basic errors like failing to use a client's full ISA allowance could lead to legal action from increasingly aggressive claims management companies (CMCs).
23 April 2013
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Regulation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has intervened in a test case in which the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is accused of mis-selling interest rate swaps.
23 April 2013
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Regulation
Steve Bloor of Open Resolution calls for the FCA to stop all the chatter and take some action against banks failing to settle PPI complaints.
22 April 2013
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Regulation
The blame for the erosion of trust in financial services must be laid at the feet of everyone involved in the sector, the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) director of supervision has said.
22 April 2013
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RDR
Product providers are split on whether RDR is having a positive effect on their business according to research from Dunstan Thomas.
19 April 2013
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